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We report evidence for a quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) in the optical light curve of KIC 9650712, a narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy in the original Kepler field. After the development and application of a pipeline for Kepler data specific…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-27 Krista Lynne Smith , Richard F. Mushotzky , Patricia T. Boyd , Robert V. Wagoner

We describe a new sample of Seyfert nuclei discovered during the course of an optical spectroscopic survey of nearby galaxies. The majority of the objects, many recognized for the first time, have luminosities much lower than those of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Luis C. Ho , Alexei V. Filippenko , Wallace L. W. Sargent

We review ASCA results on a search for low luminosity active nuclei at the center of nearby normal galaxies. More than a dozen low-luminosity AGN have been discovered with 2-10 keV luminosity in the range 10^{40-41} ergs/s. Their X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. Terashima

Correlated variability between coronal X-rays and disc optical/UV photons provides a very useful diagnostic of the interplay between the different regions around an active galactic nucleus (AGN) and how they interact. AGN that reveal strong…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-13 Samuzal Barua , Oluwashina K. Adegoke , Ranjeev Misra , Pramod Pawar , V. Jithesh , Biman J. Medhi

We have analyzed the timing properties of the Narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy Mrk 766 observed with XMM-Newton during the PV phase. The source intensity changes by a factor of 1.3 over the 29,000 second observation. If the soft excess is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Th. Boller , R. Keil , J. Truemper , P. T. O'Brien , J. Reeves , M. Page

We report the results from a deep ROSAT PSPC observation of LINER galaxy NGC 4736. Two bright sources are detected, separated by only about 1', with the brighter one coinciding with the center of the galaxy. Neither source shows apparent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Wei Cui , Dan Feldkun , Robert Braun

Recent studies have reported a linear correlation between the hard X-ray and high-energy neutrino luminosities of active galactic nuclei (AGN), suggesting a possible physical connection between these two messengers. In this work, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-14 Jian-Jun Luo , Ming-Xuan Lu , Yun-Feng Liang

This paper presents new Chandra and BeppoSAX observations aimed at investigating the optical/X-ray mismatch in the enigmatic class of the Composite galaxies, discovered by a cross-correlation of IRAS and ROSAT all sky survey catalogues.…

We report B, V, and R band CCD photometry of the Seyfert galaxy NGC 4151 obtained with the 1.0-m telescope at Weihai Observatory of Shandong University and the 1.56-m telescope at Shanghai Astronomical Observatory from 2005 December to 2013…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-06 Di-Fu Guo , Shao-Ming Hu , Jun Tao , Hong-Xing Yin , Xu Chen , Hong-Jian Pan

We present results of recurrence analysis of 46 active galactic nuclei (AGN) using light curves from the 157-month catalog of the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) in the 14-150 keV band. We generate recurrence plots and compute recurrence…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-28 R. A. Phillipson , M. S. Vogeley , P. T. Boyd

Very few galactic nuclei are found to show significant X-ray quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs). After carefully modeling the noise continuum, we find that the ~3.8 hr QPO in the ultrasoft active galactic nucleus (AGN) candidate 2XMM…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Dacheng Lin , Jimmy A. Irwin , Olivier Godet , Natalie A. Webb , Didier Barret

Here we report an optical quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) with a period of $\sim$134~day detected in g- and r-band light curves of a narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy TXS 1206+549 at redshift of 1.34 with the data from the Zwicky Transient…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-13 Chongyang Ren , Sisi Sun , Pengfei Zhang

RE J1034+396 is a narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy (NLS1) in which the first significant X-ray quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) in an active galactic nuclei (AGN) was observed in 2007. We report the detection of this QPO in a recent XMM-Newton…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-17 Chichuan Jin , Chris Done , Martin Ward

We present the results of the optical identifications of a set of X-ray sources from the all-sky surveys of INTEGRAL and SWIFT observatories. Optical data were obtained with Russian-Turkish 1.5-m Telescope (RTT150). Nine X-ray sources were…

A fraction of active galactic nuclei do not show the classical Seyfert-type signatures in their optical spectra, i.e. they are optically "elusive". X-ray observations are an optimal tool to identify this class of objects. We combine new…

We present the first in a series of papers describing the X-ray properties of a sample of 18 Seyfert 1 galaxies, using data obtained by \asca. The imaging data reveal a number of serendipitous hard X-ray sources in some source fields, but…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 K. Nandra , I. M. George , R. F. Mushotzky , T. J. Turner , T. Yaqoob

We present the results from a study of the X-ray variability and the near-IR to X-ray spectral energy distribution of four low-luminosity, Seyfert 1 galaxies. We compared their variability amplitude and broad band spectrum with those of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 I. E. Papadakis , Z. Ioannou , W. Brinkmann , E. M. Xilouris

We present the results of a 17 ks Chandra ACIS-S observation of the nearby dwarf spiral galaxy NGC 4395. Chandra affords the first high-quality, broadband X-ray detection of the active nucleus of this object that is uncontaminated by nearby…

We present the variability study of the lowest-luminosity Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 4395 based on the photometric monitoring campaigns in 2017 and 2018. Using 22 ground-based and space telescopes, we monitored NGC 4395 with a $\sim$5 minute…

The physical nature of the X-ray/radio correlation of AGN is still an unsolved question. High angular resolution observations are necessary to disentangle the associated energy dynamics into nuclear and stellar components. We present…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Jens Zuther , Sebastian Fischer , Andreas Eckart